How to market a home based business

Many home business owners find it challenging to market their business because they do not have a physical location for their customers to come to in order to deal with their transactions. Although not having a physical location can make it challenging to establish a local presence, there is a lot that can be done with your website and good online marketing tactics.

Marketing a home business is the only way you will be able to make a name for yourself. You will need to rely heavily on your website and good SEO tactics in order to get people interested in your products and services. This will come down to you ability to create effective Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns along with other things like using keywords in your Meta tags and other things. Optimizing your site will allow you to build up a good audience and will also be able to help you create a great presence. Many at-home business owners are able to compete with the larger companies out there because of their superior products and excellent marketing tactics.

How many clients or customers do you already have? These individuals will really help you market your business as you can rely on them for customer referrals. Turn to these individuals in order to find new individuals to market to. You also need to make sure that these customers are happy with your company if you are planning to make a difference. You existing customers need to like your company enough to actually tell their friends about it. You also need to look at the things that you can offer to your existing customers in order to convince them to send referrals your way. Referral marketing is a great way to bring in new customers because there are so many customers that will trust the companies that their friends interact with and this helps you to move to the second phase of your selling process. To make sure you are doing a good job with your existing customers, take a look at the following:

• Are you meeting deadlines?


• Are you reliable and dependable?


• Do you have quality products?


• How does your product compare to other companies?


• Are you offering fair prices?

Being reliable and a company that people can depend on will go a long way in attracting new referrals from your existing customers.

Now that you are bringing in customers from your referrals you need to consider other online marketing tactics. Have you started a Pay Per Click marketing program? If you are using a PPC program you do need to focus on the keywords along with the landing pages. Your customers expect the ad they click on to take them to a particular page and they don't want to go to your homepage only to be confused as to the content that is on there and also become frustrated as they cannot find the product that you were advertising. The landing page needs to be simple and easy to understand. Make sure you are considering what the customer wants from you when you are creating a landing page.

Social media is another way to start marketing your website. You can gain a lot of insight into your customers when you use social media as you are able to see what attracts them to certain products and other things. You can also send out small bits of information to attract the customers to your site, boosting your visibility. Stay active on social media sites so people actually follow them but do not blitz your customers with too many ads and things as it will cause them to leave your social media page.